Supporting Open Access Publishing: Innovations by COPIM & Open Book Futures
Enhance the impact and accessibility of Open Access books with COPIM and Open Book Futures projects focusing on technological advancements, revenue models, archiving solutions, and community support for a fairer and sustainable future in academic publishing.
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Introducing Introducing Copim s work to support open work to support open access publishing access publishing Copim s Joe Deville Lancaster University / Open Book Collective All slides CC BY Open Book Futures is f Open Book Futures is funded by unded by 18 March 2025 1
3.5 year project, funded by Research England & Arcadia; ended April 2023 3 year project, funded by Arcadia & Research England; to end April 2026 Addressing the key technological, structural, and organisational hurdles[ ] standing in the way of the wider adoption and impact of Open Access books Deeping and extending the impact of COPIM https://copim.pubpub.org/
Creating a fairer, more sustainable future for OA books A revenue model for established publishers transitioning to OA An open metadata management and dissemination platform Delivering more accessible OA ebooks New archiving & preservation solutions for OA books Expanding the possibilities of OA academic books
Creating a fairer, more sustainable future for OA books A revenue model for established publishers transitioning to OA An open metadata management and dissemination platform Delivering more accessible OA ebooks New archiving & preservation solutions for OA books Expanding the possibilities of OA academic books
Support a model of OA book publishing not reliant on BPCs Make it easier for librarians to support OA membership schemes Generate new revenue streams for OA publishers & SPs Issue small grants to emerging publishers What we do For publishers that are either 100% OA or can get up to 75% OA on new books Community led Supporting bibliodiversity A registered charity Ethos
Builds on & extends Diamond OA membership funding model Securing non-BPC based OA funding via renewable memberships from dozens of universities Securing non- BPC based OA funding via renewable memberships from dozens of universities
Progress so far Over Plus 3 capacity building grants of approx. 2,000,000 ( 40,000) to be issued soon 40,000,000 ( 750,000) raised so far, 90% of which goes to members On track to become self- sustaining by 2026 79 supporting members and growing
Easily exporting metadata in many industry standard formats OR: join Thoth Plus, a low cost option where we do this for you Help publishers easily manage their metadata EITHER: use Thoth for free and manage this yourself What we do Creating a community of like-minded publishers For small to medium-sized publishers A registered non-profit Open Ethos infrastructure
Progress so far Numerous data provision agreements signed (e.g. EBSCOhost, JSTOR, Project MUSE) Metadata for 2.2k books and 12k chapters from >45 publishers, and growing Thoth website, catalogue, and Free/Plus service model established On track to become self- sustaining by 2026
